Imogen Binnie

"The darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. When she finds out her girlfriend has lied to her, the world she thought she'd carefully built for herself begins to unravel, and Maria sets out on a journey that will most certainly change her forever"--P. [4] of cover.

Nevada

"Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall. One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist—and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author—Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.

A Novel

Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters. After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria steals her car and heads for the Pacific, embarking on her version of the Great American Road Trip. Along the way she stops in Reno, Nevada, and meets James, a young man who works in the local Wal-Mart. Maria recognizes elements of her younger self in James and the pair quickly form an unlikely but powerful connection, one that will have big implications for them both. This hilarious, groundbreaking cult classic inspired a whole literary movement, and is now published in the UK for the very first time.

Maria è una ragazza trans che vive a New York e lavora come commessa in una libreria. Impantanata in una relazione ormai spenta e insoddisfatta su più fronti, un giorno scopre di essere tradita dalla fidanzata e poco dopo perde pure il posto di lavoro. Fedele alle proprie idee punk rock, decide allora di partire per un viaggio in auto verso il Pacifico. Comincia così un road trip che porterà la protagonista nelle profondità dell’America e di se stessa, anche grazie all’incontro con James, un ragazzo che sta vivendo i suoi stessi dubbi e problemi. Spassoso, dolcissimo, ma anche di una profondità e sensibilità disarmanti, Nevada è uno spaccato di vita trans che è diventato oggetto di culto negli Stati Uniti. Ma non solo: è un’opera che porta chiunque a interrogarsi sui propri desideri e identità, aprendo nuovi orizzonti e trasmettendo una gran voglia di vivere e un irrinunciabile senso di libertà.

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